11/21 Remaining GOP activists want to turn the Party further to The Right:
http://tinyurl.com/6m4xsv (TPM)
Note I predicted this a year ago, luckily (?) with the way information
moves, it shouldn't take them 12 years to discover that extremism is
a losing strategy, the way it did with the Dems.
\_ You do know that McCain was about as left as you can go and still be
in the GOP, right?
\_ You don't know what left means do you?
\_ I think that Guliani and Schwartzenner are both more liberal,
actually. Other than immigration policy and campaign finance
reform, McCain was pretty solidly conservative, right?
reform, McCain is pretty solidly conservative, right?
\_ I don't think McCain held many non very conservative views. That
was not his appeal.

11/21 Big news- Michaela has finally reached 100kg and 50 inches around! To
celebrate, we're moving her over to TailorMadeBBW, where she will
continue to grow bigger and even more beautiful. She's gained over a
hundred pounds since she started modeling for us, and is hoping to
gain even more. Her next goal? A whopping 68 inches and 300 lbs.
Yowza! Let's give this epic gainer a round of applause for her newest
achievement. A BIG step for a BIG woman.
\_ Congratulations on getting a BMW.
\_ Don't mix metric and imperial units.

11/21 who is more annoying, LOLZguy or StarWarsdude
\_ hey man, I try to pollute only every several days on financial
threads -jarjar
\_ I guess we are cheaper than psychotherapy
\_ SWG is far, far more annoying.
\_ GOOG at 248. Time to buy?

11/21 big. hmm. game. ?
\_ Bigger than usual this year. Stanford's bowl game hopes are
pinned on it and Cal's hopes for a half-way decent season.
Both teams are competitive, which hasn't happened too often
in the last 30 years.
\_ and apparently not this year, either. -tom

11/21 California now state with 3rd highest unemployment rate at 8.2%
(behind Michigan and RI at 9.3%)
\_ Just wait until Ahnold's new taxes kick in.
\_ I'm looking forward to my new 11.25% sales tax rate.
\_ Is this for reals or just a joke? URL?
\_ REPEAL PROP 13!!!

11/21 E*Trade survival depends on TARP funding. Larger brokerages reluctant
to acquire company because of its MBS/CDO liabilities (would rather
acquire brokerage side only via bankruptcy).
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4AK6NM20081121?sp=true
\_ If my online tradng account is with ETrade, how will this
affect me? Should I transfer ASAP? Any recommendations?
I make ~10-20 trades a year at most.
\_ your immediate concern is articles like this leading to a
stampede for the door and contributing to a chaotic closure.
What do I think? I would close my account today and not take
no for an answer. The second this appears as a lead story on
http://CNN.com you may be in for a very long wait on the phone. -op
\_ You are covered for up to $1/2M by the Federal Govt, so if you
have less than this, your biggest inconvenience might be having
to wait a few months while your claim is processed. If you have
more than this, you should move some to another brokerage.
\_ My wife was in the Reserve Primary Fund in her 401(k), they've
gotten back 75%, but it's a waiting game while they try to
extract funds from the govt and figure out how to liquidate.
*Your* nightmare is if your stock portfolio is frozen, the
markets are crashing around you, and you can't do shit. All
that SIPC covers is return of stock, not value of stock when
a brokerage goes boom. Cash should be safe, though, up to
the insured amount. -op
\_ Not a nightmare if you are a buy and hold investor. But
if you want to be able to trade in and out of the market,
this could be problematic.
\_ Thanks. Any recommendation where to move to for online trading?
I only keep $50-$100k for a situation like this. Most of my
money I have with my brick and mortar bank and the financial
services compnay which manager our defined contribution retirement
plan. But I do want access to a way to trade online with low fees.
\_ People seem to like Scottrade, though if you are into daytrading
you can use http://thinkorswim.com like angry sysadmin.
\_ fyi, this showed up on drudge just now, not highlighted though